Dec. 06, 2013

Dissecting America's $3 Trillion Medical Bill

In “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” a 26,000-word investigative piece in TIME magazine, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill catalogues the myriad reasons for America's skyrocketing healthcare costs, from extravagantly paid administrators at nonprofit hospitals to bloated bills for hospital care. And Obamacare, he argues, won't do much to solve the problem.